Recorded live at Interdimensional Transmissions presents Return to the Source - Tresor 313, Tangent Gallery, Detroit (28-05-2022)

Main room closing set after Underground Resistance presents Wavejumpers (live)

Live at Return to the Source 2022 (Tresor 313) - Detroit

"For our set at the festival this year, we challenged ourselves to play tracks with a Scandinavian connection—whether through the artist, remixer, or label. These tracks also echoed the music that first inspired our love for clubbing and DJ’ing. This recording captures a sunny Saturday afternoon at the Aura stage, where the vibe was truly impeccable.” - Martinou

Mama Snake b2b Martinou at Draaimolen Festival 2024

The producer best known as Huerco S. accompanies One Day, our record of the year, with two hours of minimal and dub introspections.

This summer, Kansas-raised DJ and producer Brian Leeds released One Day under his revived Loidis alias. Enamoured with the restrained, loopy sounds of early '00s dance music, the album’s eight tracks linger in the air, luxuriating in dubbed-out chords, swung beats and sub vibrations. It's our favourite record of 2024 for a reason. 

It's a sound he's coined, in his typically teasing fashion, "dub mnml emo tech." All winks aside, it’s no wonder One Day became the soothing balm we all needed. In a scene overwhelmed by hard and fast trends, the softer—and Leeds might argue, more sincere—stylings of minimal and dub techno enjoyed a welcome second wind. 

Not only was One Day one of our favourites of the year (more on that this week), but it also inspired us to break our usual no-repeats rule, inviting Leeds back to the RA Podcast under a different alias after his 2019 turn as Huerco S. 

"The prevailing trends in dance music are more and more maximalist," Leeds noted. "I missed restraint, subtlety, and sensuality." Clocking in at just under two hours, RA.965 embodies that ethos in spades.

@huerco_s

Read more at ra.co/podcast/965

RA.965 Loidis

Samhain XXIV at Tangent, Oct 26 in Detroit. Erika did a captivating under 120 bpm techno set to launch the night, Wata Igarashi was on directly after me, with Mike Servito following Wata and ultimately Scott Zacharias closing the 12 hour party. In the other room the Luv NRG Soundsystem raged as T4T did their thing. 

For this set I took the approach that at this time of year, in the Halloween time period, that feelings morph and change, how we feel about music on these nights is different, the context is altered. What is stern, scary, and stark can be very exciting at this time. What is warm and funky also takes a new shape and can be oh so freaky. I felt an impeding doom in the air and I wanted to channel that into solid sound system experience that was transformative and immersive. A sonic description of another world, the true power of techno. I am extremely excited about the shifting of eras happening within techno right now, and there was so much fresh music that fit the No Way Back concepts, but within a more pure techno language. I was also thinking of Mike Huckaby, who I worked with in the Record Time Dance Room, and his theories that a few amount of sounds makes a record the most powerful. There’s so many thrilling jams with only 4 sounds right now, this set gave me a special chance to explore that. 

Technically I used 4 CDJ-3000s and a Pioneer V10 and its internal effects with lots of layering with a new approach to mixing. If I’m doing something historic, it has to fit perfectly within the sonic context of what I’m playing, and for an older cut that can be very hard with today’s sonics, so I spend time remastering the older songs through my mixer and outboard equipment to give them a way to be played and allow them to glow within this new and living context. It’s all experimental at this point, a work in progress. The ones called QM are an older “quick master” technique that I did with software. Enjoy this journey to the other side. 

Podcast mastered by BMG.

Monks of the Drukpa Kagyu Order–Doungchen And Gyaling
Architectural — Rare Ceremony Tapes
Edit Select — Translate - Backward Signal
Terrence Dixon — Unconditional Love
The Vision — Detroit: One Circle (BMG Remaster)
Psyk — Disconnected
Mod21 — Childlike Wonder (Rrose Remix)
Feral — Flare
Orbe — Bronze
Feral — Chez Driss
Neel — Riflesso
Yan Cook — Cipher
Gene Hunt — Wildside Danny Dubb (BMG Remaster)
Shlomi Aber & Kashpitzky — Bazement
Troy — Awakening
Innersha — Emeralds
Dialog — Better Way (Feat. Benji)
Helena Hauff — Humanoid Fruit
Mod21 — Will You Ever Stop
Sexual Harrassment — I Need A Freak (BMG edit)
Psyk — Fear Of Sleep (Edit)
Allana Letm — Temois Multiplos (Centrific Remix)
Wata Igarashi — Collision
Erika — Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Mike Parker — Heat Inducer
Perfo — Muse
Luigi Tozzi — Spiral (Rrose Remix)
Kerrie — Replicants 
Andy Toth — Sycorax ver.1 [forthcoming IT]
Acid Junkies — Design The Future (BMG Remaster)
808 State — Flow Coma (BMG Remaster)
Aphex Twin — Isopropophlex (BMG Remaster)
CHBB — NBKE (BMG QM)

BMG at Samhain XXIV

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
@kia-sydney @animalia-label  @cirruslabel

Read more at ra.co/podcast/973

RA.973 Kia

On this month's episode, GiGi FM invites Belgian artist Robin, known as Phara, to share his luminous alias In Glass ~ a slow burning, dub infused journey for summer heat and golden hours.

Artwork by http://mete.fyi/
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gigi-fm/episodes/gigi-fm-13th-august-2025

GiGi FM presenst In Glass  130825

An hour of deep cuts by Kia ahead of her set at Abrupt Festival.

Abrupt Festival w/ Kia @ Kiosk Radio 10.10.2025

On the third night of rural, OCCA delivered a truly "unconventional" set.

With IDM-oriented, programmatic techno sounds, trance-infused half-step rhythms, and moments of pure psychedelia woven throughout, his performance turned the night into something close to a special ritual.

As a DJ who continues to explore the uncharted territories of dance music and present futuristic visions of it, OCCA captivates not only the connoisseurs but every single person on the dance floor. Please enjoy his uncategorizable, sonically hypnotic dance set.

rural 3日目の夜、OCCAが、まさに"型破り"なセットを披露してくれました。

IDMオリエンテッドなプログラム・テクノサウンド、異次元へ誘うようなトランス経由のハーフステップ、随所に高純度なサイケデリックサウンドが織り交ぜられたこのDJセットは、この日の夜を特別な儀式へと導いていきました。

ダンスミュージックの未開拓領域に挑み続け、未来的なダンスミュージックを提示するDJとして、好事家のみならず、ダンスフロアの一人ひとりを魅了してきたOCCAによるカテゴライズ不能な音響派催眠ダンスセットをお楽しみください。

OCCA at rural 2025

Red Groove "original mix"

Bashing Beats

This week's podcast is an exclusive live set from Canadian dub techno producer Deadbeat.

RA.072 Deadbeat

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Live at Return to the Source 2022 (Tresor 313) - Detroit

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